How would people here feel about a tax that increases in rate per-property owned? People and organizations can still own as many properties as they want, but at some point they’re going to be taxed so much it’ll be impossible to profit off of them.

Thanks I hate it.

For most of the decade I was on Reddit, vegan support was always met with vitriolic opposition unless it was on a vegan-friendly sub. But the last year or so I was on that platform I remember being really surprised to see a trend towards anti-vegan sentiment becoming the unpopular opinion. I was surprised again once I joined Lemmy to see that anti-vegan culture seems to be the popular opinion here, though I’m noticing there is also a stronger pro-vegan culture than there had been for most of my time on Reddit.

What happens when the government figures out who is in possession of the death note and arrests them/confiscates the death note? I don’t know what’s scarier, some rogue nobody with the death note or the United States Government.

It’s true, when you’re a compulsive liar and you can’t help yourself from spewing hatred and inciting violence, not testifying in a court of law is definitely the right move.

It’s kinda wild to see things moving in the right direction for once…

Time to learn Linux!

The explosive ones go boom

Nobody gets a free pass for breaking laws in America

You might want to check your notes on that one…

Use a Hitachi Magic Wand and an outlet timer.

I decided that I personally felt unethical bringing people into this world nearly a decade ago

Easy solution; don’t use Amazon.

I was going to suggest John and Hank Green until I realized you already included them! So how about Destin Sandlin from Smarter Every Day?

Winter is Coming - Light has been my main VS Code theme for years. Alas, no senior title yet…

I’ve got two monitors which mostly ends up meaning I have twice the amount of screen to lose application windows in.

Yes that, but also the increasing Tesla QA issues over the recent years inspire little confidence

Somebody on RuneScape back in the early 2000s threatened to report me if I didn’t tell them my password and so I reluctantly told them and immediately got locked out of my free, low level account :⁠-⁠(

“I just want to live in a society that uses some of the value its working class generates to improve the lives of the general population in any meaningful way.”

I bought a Valve Index two years ago, had fun with it for a couple weeks, then never used it again :⁠-⁠\

Not the original commenter but for me it was that they didn’t integrate well into my multi-device management platform and instead required you to use Sonos’s platform and products to play on multiple devices. The sound was decent but I only had one and it didn’t work with my other speakers so it rarely got used.